Dubliners (Enriched Classics)

#macmillan Collector's Library Edition :Alike all Booklovers I have a common interest of exploring different kinds of edition.well,I found this 'Macmillan Collector's Library' edition a year ago and bought one for a mere experiment and oh my God ! it's a tiny little pastle-colored hardcover edition that's look really cute😍. Now I've two books of this edition(Dubliners by James Joyce & A Midsummer Night's Dream by william Shakespeare).All books of this edition come with this same kind of sky blue(as I don't know the exact name of this shade😝)and golden colored dust cover( and underneath the cover the same sky blue shade Clothbound, carved with some floral designs) .Now it's time to peek inside the book and as you open it you'll find two beautiful pastle-colored leafy printed pages before & after the text which I love the most 😍.The quality of the bright white pages with golden shiny edges are good enough and the glossy ribbon is an addition to the beauty of the book. You can carry books of this edition anytime anywhere.The only flaw of this edition is it's small fonts. But I can consider that, it's an adorable chhotu edition .❤ .#macmillancollectorslibrary

Dubliners is a tale of a young man amidst turmoil of love, hope, spirituality, pain and inner redemption. It is the author's take on the transformation from childhood to adolescence into adulthood. Spun in the background of Irish catholicism and her struggle for freedom metaphorically related with the protagonist's own life.

Some of the best short stories I have ever read. ' The dead ' is my favorite.the issues Joyce has dealt with in his stories are timeless. They breath of newness and contemporary life. I recommend to everyone who love ponder over the lines long after having read literature. Joyce is certainly for you.

The book arrived with a scraped cover and the quality of the pages is abysmal, expected more from penguin.

Good quality. Original copy

Dubliners actually chronicles the lives of people of Dublin. Collection of short stories. Some stories are left without a perfect ending or you may say without an ending at all. It's upon the readers to interpret the outcome at last.

Every lover of literature must go through it

The cover is dull and roughMy copy arrived today and this is by far the worst paper quality I have been supplied. The cover is dull and rough, looks and feels like that of cheap magazines and journals, it's one thing to be recycled and another to look it. The paper quality is newspaper material, dark, rough and dead. This is clearly a fake penguin copy, people who go book shopping in CP would know what I mean. Penguin doesn't make covers like this. Their covers regardless of cheap/expensive(collectible) editions is smooth and have soft Matt feel to it.This is outrageous.My rant here I hope doesn't prove to be pointless. Please don't order this copy no matter how low the price go. It'll be as it is for me, regrettable and pathetic. The book 'falls' when held from the edge. As if the paper has no strength. I am clearly going to return my copy as my money and my time is as valuable to me as my reading experience. And I want a good reading experience. Else I would have bought it from the lanes of CP.

Book came covered in something sticky that can not be removed with water or degreaser

Libro con actividades en cada capítulo.

James Joyce para ser apreciado. Detalhe para o conto "The Dead", mote para último grande filme de Jonh Huston, com sua filha Anjelica, em 1987.

Used this for an English class.

Just finished The Dubliners by James Joyce. I hadn’t read any of his works. This is a good start for anyone thinking of reading real literature. It’s astonishing to think he was 22 years old when he’d completed these stories. But I guess true genius shows up early. I see why he is so revered. I would like to learn the art of short story writing and Joyce is the master.This book is a series of vignettes, snapshots or sketches. Just the ticket for those who want a brief read before turning out the light, perhaps. But all the stories have a streak of sadness and harsh reality of those years before World War I, so your dreams may not be so sweet. There are fifteen stories but I will refer to just three.I loved THE BOARDING HOUSE. This covers the life of the boarding house owner, Mrs. Mooney and her daughter Polly. Polly starts a dalliance with one of the boarders—thirty-five-year-old, Mr. Doran—a man with a fairly good job—a decent catch. Madam will deal with matters of emotion ‘like a cleaver to meat’, as Joyce delicately puts it, especially where her daughter’s honor is at stake. No man would be allowed to abuse her hospitality and get away with it under her own roof. Like Polly, now sullied, Mr. Doran stands to lose everything.ARABY is one of my favorites and tells the story of a boy who falls for the girl across the street, the sister of a friend. He is obsessed with her and she fills his thoughts for every moment, at school, at home. He sits by the parlor window staring at her door across the street. Love is painful. This story is relevant to all of us at that age as boys and girls who become smitten. Puppy love. Eventually the girl speaks to him under the lamp light. He notices every detail about her. Joyce describes the light on her body and her petticoat. She tells him she would love to go the Araby market on Saturday, but she has to go to a church meeting. Thrilled, the boy tells her he is going and will bring her something back. He now has a mission and a reason to get closer to her. He counts the hours until he can go after getting permission from his aunt and promise of money from his uncle. Frustratingly, his uncle comes home late that Saturday evening and has forgotten about his promise. His aunt persuades him to give him the money and let him go. Joyce describes the lonely train journey to the bazaar. He’s been given a florin (two shillings—about twenty-five cents in today’s money) and spends most of it on the train fare and a shilling to get in. Once inside, most of the stalls are now closed. Deflated, he stares at a stall with jars and things and the girl who he’d heard talking with two men asks him if he wants to buy something. He tells her ‘no’. Most of his money is gone now. He notices the accents of the girl and two men are English. Why? It just is. And it makes it all the more real. He storms out feeling angry with himself for what he realizes is a fool’s errand, for his stupidity and pride—one of those coming-of-age moments in a young man’s life.Joyce makes the complex look simple. He does not explain anything and leaves somethings as a mystery. Why does he mention that they live in a house where a priest had died? Why does the boy live with his uncle and aunt? Where are his mother and father? We must presume they are dead. That is how things are in the boy’s life. And that’s how the best writing is. Things left unexplained.These are stories like beautifully prepared simple meals. Every bite, every word, delicious. Of course, simple meals aren’t always so simple. Often preparation is complex, resulting in exquisite, memorable taste.THE DEAD is reckoned to be one of Joyce’s masterpieces and John Huston filmed it beautifully and showed his own genius. The main character, Gabriel, takes his wife to a Christmas celebration at the house of his two aunts with many in attendance. Later that night, he takes his wife home by carriage in the snow and all the while he is feels his love for her, as he’d done all evening, and looks forward to making love to her at their hotel room. Once there, and after chatting with her, he realizes she is distraught. He learns of a previous love she had had for a boy she’d known when she was young and who had died, or willed himself to die when she left to live in another town. Gabriel’s own sadness and crushed spirit are evident as, with tears in his eyes, he looks out into the gently falling snow that must be falling on his wife’s sweetheart’s grave and across all of Ireland. The last paragraphs are said to be some of the greatest writing in English literature. John Huston’s excellent film maybe viewed on Youtube.On looking back over The Dubliners, I have to ask myself: are these stories and Joyce’s writing so impactful that they could change how you think? Yes, I think so. I’ll read them again and again. The more one delves, the more one sees. It’s not really so much about the dreary lives of people Joyce writes about, but about the writing itself that conjures up emotional experience.